podengo
Galician
Alternative forms
- podenco
Etymology
Unknown: from Old Galician and Old Portuguese podengo (13th century; 11th century in Latin texts), either from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, or rather from Suevic or Gothic. Cognate with Portuguese podengo and Spanish podenco.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [poˈðeŋɡʊ]
Noun
podengo m (plural podengos)
- hound with stiff ears, historically used for rabbit hunting
- c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 134:
- Ca hũu arçipreste do castelo, ome mao et auol, foy aa caça et, el andando per aquel monte, caerõlle os podengos no rastro do conde et da jnfãte
- Because an archpriest of the castle, a mean and vile man, went hunting and, while wandering about that hill, his hounds found the trail of the count and the Princess
- Ca hũu arçipreste do castelo, ome mao et auol, foy aa caça et, el andando per aquel monte, caerõlle os podengos no rastro do conde et da jnfãte
- c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 134:
References
- “podengo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “podengo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “podenco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “podengo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “podenco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos